Veneman Reportedly To Be Chief Of UNICEF

[Desperadoe]

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 14 -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan will appoint the Bush administration's outgoing secretary of agriculture, Ann M. Veneman, as head of the U.N. Children's Fund next week, senior U.N. officials said.

Veneman was one of three candidates the administration proposed to succeed UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy, who will step down in May after leading the agency for 10 years, the officials said. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they had been instructed to keep the decision confidential until next week.

Annan will inform UNICEF's executive board of his decision on Monday and announce Veneman's appointment Tuesday, the officials said. She will oversee a staff of more than 7,000 people in 150 countries for a five-year term. Annan previously imposed a two-term limit on the position.

The top post at UNICEF has gone to an American since the organization was established in 1946. U.N. officials hope that the hiring of a prominent Republican official to a senior U.N. post will help improve the organization's troubled relations with the United States.<snip>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10691-2005Jan14.html

[Fenris]

1. *slaps forehead*

Wonderful idea.:eyes:

[Maat]

2. Oh, yeah.

She is the perfect warm, loving, compassionate interface .

[Nothing Without Hope]

3. From promoter of mad cow beef sales to protector of little children?

This woman is a monster, one of the worst in this administration, and that is saying something. The idea of her being given leadership over an international childrens' welfare organization horrifies me to the point of nausea. It's a kind of souless, evil joke.

[pinniped]

5. Exactly, these repukes are the most disgusting pieces of...

shit I have ever seen.

Watch out, the witch may have found a way to offload dangerous beef.

[Nothing Without Hope]

8. Two birds with one stone...

...give all those non-rich children the killer beef from Rethug donor Big Beef conglomerates, paid for with our tax dollars, and then they'll not grow up to oppose the Emperor. In fact, they won't grow up at all.

This woman is pure poison.

[burrowowl]

4. Instead of save the children

it will be bury them. This makes me sick. :puke: :mad:

[ConsAreLiars]

6. What next, Nosferatu in charge of Blood Banks? (n/t)

[Amigust]

7. There goes UNICEF. n/t

[Wilms]

9. I thought we were done with Ann Venom.

No. They were just :puke: her in a new position.

-on edit-

<http://www.unicef.org/about/contact_contactusform.html>

Thirty seconds well spent. Tell them what you think.

[depakid]

10. It just gets sicker every day...

It would be difficult to think of a less deserving person to head UNICEF. After all, this dispicable woman has spent her entire career fighting to allow corporations to expose children to toxic chemicals and during her tenure at agriculture, was not only dishonest about the safety of the American beef supply, but worked tirelessly to spread GMO's around the world, in order to indenture farmers to the likes of Monsanto.

If she heads UNICEF, they lose ALL credibility in my book- and I'm sure in many others'. The fact that she'd even be considered is utterly disgraceful.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. PLEASE NOTE THIS from the article, re. outgoing director...

Carol Bellamy:

"Bellamy, 66, a Peace Corps director during the Clinton administration, had long been a target of social conservative critics who faulted her for promoting children's rights and reproductive health services for poor women."

[gottaB]

12. maybe, but I have a more cynical view

Check the last paragraph:

Brisben praised Bellamy's administration of UNICEF but said the Bush administration would like to see it focus less on issues such as children's rights and more on reducing child mortality rates. "We believe that we've got to get back down to the basics of child survival," he said.

I am sure that child mortality rates are a key issue. I have a dreadful suspicion that Veneman's solution to the problem of high reported rates of child mortality in Iraq will be to report lower rates of child mortality.

[DeepModem Mom]

13. kick